Benson Literally Plays a Game With Death
Added 2023-10-25 06:44:05 +0000 UTC“The Stranger” (October 25, 1985)
Benson may have been a more conventional sitcom than Soap, the show it spun off, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have its exceedingly weird moments — including this final season Halloween special in which Benson must play a trivia game with death personified in order to save the lives of 41 hapless schoolchildren. It’s basically the last moment in time an otherwise grounded sitcom could get away with this, and we’re lucky to have James Eldred on hand to discuss it. Also he suggested it!
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Comments
I guess never say never. But we usually give the Never Did A a Gay Episode treatment for shows we truly love and want to discuss. And I’m not sure either of us have super strong feelings about Sports Night, Sabrina Lloyd notwithstanding.
Drew Mackie
2023-10-27 21:34:50 +0000 UTCSince you brought it up, any chance of Sports Night ever making it on the pod? They Never Did a Gay Episode (tm), but that doesn't always stop you. Danny and Casey are referred to as vaguely gay in "Intellectual Property". Other possibilities with LGBT reacharounds might include "The Apology" which deals with Dan facing a PR problem for a confession he makes in a magazine or "The Cutman Cometh" where we meet Dan's disapproving dad.
Jay Bloodworth
2023-10-27 14:57:10 +0000 UTCRe: "He's Death/He's not that devastating." Perhaps she took it as a ridiculously roundabout way of saying, "to die for?" That would have been a timely phrase, even though it's a stretch.
Vanessa Lopez
2023-10-26 16:35:22 +0000 UTC
